Growing: An Autobiography of the Years 1904-1911, Volume 2

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Page 44Sanders, the D.J., was a small, fat whisky-drinking man of 49 whom I never got to
know well, because he was soon transferred to another station. Dutton, the P.M.,
was a strange character; a strange fate, partly due to me, befell him, but I will deal
with him and his fate in greater detail later. This, as I have said, was the top
stratum of Jaffna society whose social routine was incredibly regular. We all
worked pretty hard during the day. When the office and the Courts closed and the
Sahibs ...

Page 51The tree was inhabited by a notorious and dangerous devil, so that the servants
disliked the bungalow and would never go near the tree after dark. If you walked
to the edge of the bastion and looked down upon the esplanade you saw below
you a small erection which looked like a hen coop; in this there lived another
devil or God whose power or reputation was considerable, for many people came
to worship him. They sacrificed to him dozens of chickens by slicing their heads
off ...

Page 210Coming upon him suddenly, as I so often did, in thick jungle he seemed to me
gigantic towering up above me; there is, too, something primeval and malignant
about him, his pachydermatous greyness, his wicked little eye, the menace of his
trunk, the slow, relentless, ceaseless fidgeting. Coming face to face with a buffalo,
a bear, or a leopard one felt pretty sure of what he would do, and in 999 cases
out of a 1,000 one was right; I never felt that I had any idea of what an elephant
would ...

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In the feudal society of Ceylon "I felt that there was some depth of happiness rather than pleasure, of satisfaction, . . . which the western world is losing or has lost." (p 158) Judgments such as ...Read full review

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This is the second book Leonard Woolf wrote of his life. He is a graceful author, and a sensitive man. Good look into an aristocratic young britisher and his growing up.Read full review